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...that time, Gamal Abdel Nasser threatened that Egyptian artillery at Sharm el Sheikh would sink any ship that ventured into the narrow Straits of Tiran en route to the Israeli port of Eilat, 130 miles to the north, which handles all of Israel's oil imports. Soon afterward, Israeli paratroopers and amphibious forces captured the fortifications. In the 1956 Sinai campaign, the Israelis took and then returned Sharm el Sheikh; this time they intend to keep it, even though it is their most remote occupied territory. Last week, in the first official step toward altering the area...
...489th out of a field of 887 in last week's Boston Marathon. But, as Harper & Row's pro motion manager must certainly agree, it wasn't a total loss-the 26 miles, 385 yards seemed to be lined with Love Story lovers. Said No. 489 afterward: "The muscles that hurt the most are in the mouth, from smiling back at the people." For Segal the marathon also disproved those who claimed success had made him soft. "They say Segal is off sipping champagne from girls' slippers." he boasted. "You can tell them I sip Gatorade...
...high school became "apathetic, disoriented and depressed" in college two months after starting on cannabis. Confiding to a college counselor that he thought marijuana was making it hard for him to think straight, he was "reassured that the drug was harmless." He gave up pot nevertheless, and not long afterward regained his motivation and ability-which suggests that the drug had been responsible for his problems...
...hair, was an obvious favorite of the crowd. "We had the impression the Chinese were trying hard not to embarrass us by lopsided scores," said Tim Boggan. They did not. The Chinese players won the men's games 5-3 and the women's 5-4. Afterward, the opponents exchanged gifts-matching pen and letter-opener sets for the Chinese, and "Double Happiness" table tennis paddles and balls for the Americans -and walked off hand in hand...
...global village, then last week's Academy Awards made a certain amount of sense. Hollywood's annual orgy of self-adulation was really the commencement exercises at good old Global Village High, complete with prizes, dull speeches, strained humor, amateurish entertainment-and one hell of a party afterward, for winners and losers alike. At least two things made this year's ceremony, silly as it always is, a little bit different: the most popular girl ended up winning none of the prizes, and one of the biggest awards of all went to the truculent dropout...